Gender Crit Cheat Sheet

There’s a lot of understandable confusion out there regarding what “gender crit” (gender critical) means, so here’s a concise chart to which you can refer as needed – also available as a one page PDF here.

She/her. Must ask every time, can change overnight & wrong pronouns kill

Man: Feel masculine

Enjoy stereotypical masculine things

Need to be seen as a man, period

May need to undergo hormone treatment, expensive/ invasive surgery

He/him. Must ask every time, can change overnight & wrong pronouns kill

*I am not going into “non-binary” here. Feel free to go down that rabbit hole on Tumblr, along with otherkin etc.

**Some AFTAs claim they do not like “feminine” things, as well as not wishing to undergo physical transition, in which case one must ask why they so vociferously claim to be women – the answer is, of course, to access (and dominate) women’s spaces, language and politics. As ever, more evidence and analysis at thenewbacklash.blogspot.com.